Finance at Work

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march

Valerie Boussard

PART I The boundaries of finance: Exclusionary process, social closure and inner regulation

Introduction: Interrogating financialization as an analytic

Karen Ho

Chapter 1 Let's make the company a bunch of figures: Professional representations in mergers and acquisitions firms

Valerie Boussard and Marie-Anne Dujarier

Chapter 2 Matching the market: Calibration and the working practices of quants

Taylor Spears

Chapter 3 Buying it: Financialisation through socialisation

Natascha van der Zwan

Chapter 4 Financial logic and bankers' institutional entrepreneurship: The politics of the "zombies" debate in bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris (2000-2005)

Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Sylvan Lemaire

PART II

Passing through boundaries: Financiers as intermediaries in conversion to financial logics

Introduction: Financialising economic activities

Donald MacKenzie

Chapter 5 The financialization of the private wealth of farmers: Is it the work of the banks?

Gilles Laferte and Abdoul Diallo

Chapter 6 Financial backlash: When local bankers face social protest

Quentin Ravelli

Chapter 7 The assetisation of South African farmland: The role of finance and brokers

Antoine Ducastel and Ward Anseeuw

PART III

Crossing boundaries: Individual careers as vehicles for financialisation

Introduction: The financialisation of finance: The transformation of the French financial elite

Sabine Montagne

Chapter 8 The second financialisation in France, or how executives and directors with unchanged financial careers promoted a new conception of control

Pierre Francois and Claire Lemercier

Chapter 9 Financialisation through the trajectories of business school graduates in France

Valerie Boussard and Simon Paye

Chapter 10 "I didn't leave financial journalism, I left classical journalism": Careers and commitments of French financial journalists at the time of financialisation

Antoine Machut

PART IV

Internal boundaries: Diversity, segmentation, stratification within financial occupations

Introduction: Is sociology of finance a general sociology?

Olivier Godechot

Chapter 11 Early careers in portfolio and wealth management: The roles of class, race and gender in occupational segmentations

Stephanie Mignot-Gerard, Constance Perrin-Joly, Francois Sarfati and Nadege Vezinat

Chapter 12 Managing fortunes and privacy: Professional rhetoric and boundaries within wealth management

Camille Herlin-Giret

Chapter 13 The duality of the LBO field

Fabien Foureault

References

Index